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Thursday, March 21, 2024

Going right?, part 2

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 I want to follow up on my previous post, which proposed that the recent rightward move of Black, Hispanic, and less educated voters might h...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Going right?

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 There's been a lot of talk recently about Blacks and Latinos shifting to the Republican party ( an example ).   Most of the accounts I...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

The road to Mar-a-Lago

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Donald Trump now has enough delegates to clinch the Republican nomination for the third time.  How did we get here?  One view is that it cam...
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Saturday, March 9, 2024

Two part twos

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 1.  My last post observed that in 1970, people with higher incomes were less likely to say that people who are successful get ahead because...
Saturday, March 2, 2024

The secret of success

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  In 1939, the Gallup poll asked  "Do you think people who are successful get ahead largely because of their luck or largely because of...
Sunday, February 25, 2024

You never know

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 A few weeks ago, I wrote about a claim that "only about four percent of all marriages today are between a Republican and a Democrat....
Friday, February 16, 2024

Two nations?

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 A couple of weeks ago, the New York Times had a piece on the upcoming election that said "Red and Blue Americas are moving farther a...
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David Weakliem
I was a professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut from 1994 until my retirement in 2021. I am editor of the journal Comparative Sociology. My new book, Public Opinion, was published by Polity in 2020. Hypothesis Testing and Model Selection in the Social Sciences was published by The Guilford Press in April 2016.
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